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IBM Data and AI Ideas Portal for Customers


This portal is to open public enhancement requests against products and services offered by the IBM Data & AI organization. To view all of your ideas submitted to IBM, create and manage groups of Ideas, or create an idea explicitly set to be either visible by all (public) or visible only to you and IBM (private), use the IBM Unified Ideas Portal (https://ideas.ibm.com).


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Welcome to the IBM Ideas Portal (https://www.ibm.com/ideas) - Use this site to find out additional information and details about the IBM Ideas process and statuses.

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IBM Employees should enter Ideas at https://ideas.ibm.com


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Ability to restore backup with job scheduling disabled (test restore)

We would like to use backup and restore as migration tool. We have existing installation of cp4d and we would like to take a backup of it and restore to new cluster. In order to be able to use backup and restore as a migration tool we need to be a...
11 months ago in Cloud Pak for Data Platform 1 Not under consideration

Versioning of large files in Git

In the insurance industry, large datasets such as models that were created and trained, and graphics, are required by different processes. However, Cloud Pak for Data currently does not support Git Large File Storage (LFS). Supporting Git LFS will...
almost 2 years ago in Cloud Pak for Data System 0 Not under consideration

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2].

Datamodule Queryitem reference without prefix [M2]. Queryitems in Datamodules have a prefix like [M2]. Is difficult to migrate a report from a frameworkmanager package to a datamodule that contains the frameworkmanager package and external datasou...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics 2 Not under consideration

Alphabetical order of signons, when report is started

When a report is run, where more than one signon is used, they signons are not ordered alphabetically (see screenshot). Signons should always be ordered alphabetically.
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Query items in package should be ordered alphabetically depending on the content language

In Frameworkmanager, the query items can be ordered alphabetically with two options (A-Z or Z-A, see screenshot #1).But when using more than one language in frameworkmanager and changing the language, the sortorder stays the same, only the query i...
over 6 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Naming Excel report name based on Prompt

We currently can name excel tabs based on selection but we want to see if we can replicate that with actual file name. So let's say Run the excel Cognos report call "Shoes" and comes open Prompt page with selections "Men" and "Women". If I select ...
over 5 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

See more data about uploaded file

In the properties of an uploaded file, I can see the size of the file, but I would like to see how many ROWS in the uploaded file. If possible, I would also like to see the number of COLUMNS, or anything else gathered on data input :)
over 7 years ago in Cognos Analytics 0 Not under consideration

Shared Data Source Signons

Due to the heightened levels of security, we are forced to change our credentials to data sources often. In Cognos Connection, we can associate multiple signons to each data source and each signon is defined by a name. It would be helpful if the s...
almost 3 years ago in Cognos Analytics / Data Access and Modelling 0 Future consideration

Currently locking is available by period and by company, and not by consolidation type

In a multi consolidation type/multi group scenario implementation it is possible that due to human error a consolidation is run for a consolidation type/Group even though the numbers for that group have been finalised and as a result of this conso...
over 3 years ago in Cognos Controller (On Prem and On Cloud) 1 Not under consideration

Automatic conversion of ifx_loc_t (TEXT/BYTE) to/from ifx_lo_t (CLOB/BLOB)

We have legacy ESQL/C code using ifx_loc_t to handle TEXT/BYTE columns. Customers want now to replace TEXT/BYTE by CLOB/BLOB columns in the database... and we would avoid to touch our ESQL/C code. Informix can support simple type conversion. For e...
over 4 years ago in Informix / Informix Server 1 Not under consideration